Lighting/Dynamic TD

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PROJECTS
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Feeding the Birds (3D short film)
* Designed, modeled, textured, lit and animated a 3D character short film using Alias Maya.
* Featured cloth dynamics, hair dynamics/rendering, and ambient occlusion using Mental Ray.
* Composited visual effects in Discreet Combustion.

POINT-BASED RENDERING SYSTEM (Interactive rendering system)
* Researched and implemented GPU accelerated point-based rendering system.
* Featured real-time global illumination using GPU vertex and fragment shaders.
* Integrated algorithms such as Q-Splat, point-and-edge clipping, and BSP tree acceleration.

CLOTHSIM (Cloth simulation system)
* Implemented a mass-spring particle system to simulate cloth animation.
* Featured accurate and robust cloth/cloth and cloth/object collision detection and response.
* Programmed explicit and implicit ODE solvers, and constrained dynamics.

PHYSICALLY BASED RENDERER (Global illumination renderer)
* Implemented a Monte-Carlo ray tracer that simulates global illumination.
* Featured optimization such as a KD-tree, importance sampling, and anti-aliasing.
* Integrated EWA texture filter, bump map, and ray differential algorithms.

MACLEOD RAIDER (3D game)
* Designed and modeled 3D characters and animation using Discreet 3ds max.
* Programmed and developed 3D graphics engine in C/C++ with OpenGL.
* Created a real-time 3D game with sound effects, joysticks and scripting with Plib.

SKILLS
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Proficient with Alias Maya, Mental Ray, Discreet 3ds max, Combustion, and Adobe After Effects
Cg shading language and Maya MEL scripting language experience
Expert in C/C++/Java programming languages and MS Visual C++/.NET
Extensive experience with OpenGL and DirectX graphics libraries


EDUCATION
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY, USA
Master of Engineering in Computer Science, Class of May 2005

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering, Class of May 2004
Specialized in Software Engineering, Minor in Commerce
First Class Graduation with Distinction

Thank you for your attention,
Kelvin Cai
cg@kelvincai.com